Judy Collins 1997-2002 Releases

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Judy is back on Elektra! Finally! This is really good news. Thanks Elektra/Warner even if it was just two albums!

HCA290 Christmas At The Biltmore Estate - 1997 October 21 - Elektra Entertainment 62120 (CD & Cassette)

Recorded live at the Biltmore Estate, North Carolina in December 1996.

Judy Collins, guitar and piano; Russel Walden, piano and keyboards; Ira Siegel, guitar; Ken Bichel, Additional Keyboards; Liesl Whitacker, trumpet; Byron L. Hedgepath, Percussion; Ronald D. Clearfield, Cello; Sandy Holland, Choir Director; The Charlotte Children's Choir.

Joy to the World - 3:17 (trad., arr/adptd Judy Collins)
Silver Bells - 4:19 (Livingston, Jay and Ray Evans)
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - 4:11 (w: Gillespie, Haven; m: Fred Coots)
Jingle Bells - 3:17 (Pierpont, James, arr/adptd Judy Collins)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - 3:03 (trad., arr/adptd Judy Collins)
What Child Is This - 3:40 (w: Chatterton, William; m: trad., arr/adptd Judy Collins)
The Twelve Days of Christmas - 5:00 (trad., arr/adptd Judy Collins)
Come Rejoice - 4:02 (Collins, Judy)
The Holly and the Ivy - 3:14 (trad., arr/adptd Judy Collins)
All on a Wintry Night - 4:05 (Collins, Judy)
The First Noel - 4:18 (trad., arr/adptd Judy Collins)
I Saw Three Ships - 2:45 (trad., arr/adptd Judy Collins)
The Night Before Christmas - 5:16 (Moore, Clement C; additional words and music by Judy Collins)
O Come, All Ye Faithful - 3:54 (trad., descant by David Willcocks, arr/adptd Judy Collins)

HCA300 Forever an anthology - 1997 October 28 - 2 CDs - Elektra Entertainment 62104 (CD only)

This retrospective set is perhaps the best way to be introduced to Collins's wonderful music. Most of her Elektra albums are represented. On many collections spanning a wide range of time (1961-1997) the sound quality is sometimes quite variable. In this instance, the sound quality is superb on every cut. It appears that a substantial effort was made to make all the cuts sound as good as possible and there are no jarring transitions. Even the earliest recording, "Maid of Constant Sorrow" sounds wonderfully fresh. See below for a discussion of the overlap with the three other available collections: Recollection, Colors of the Day, and So Early In The Spring.

DISC 1
- Someday Soon - 3:43 (Tyson, Ian) [from HCA080]
- Who Knows Where the Time Goes - 4:20 (Denny, Sandy) [from HCA080] The mix on this is the same as on Colors of the Day and appears different from the original release on Who Knows Where The Time Goes.
- Chelsea Morning - 3:15 (Mitchell, Joni) (1997 recording)
- Suzanne - 4:21 (Cohen, Leonard) [from HCA060]
- Born To The Breed - 4:45 (Collins, Judy) [from HCA120]
- Maid of Constant Sorrow - 2:35 (Trad.) [from HCA010]
- Since You've Asked - 2:34 (Collins, Judy) [from HCA070]
- Bread & Roses - 3:05 (Fariña, Mimi & James Oppenheim) [from HCA130]
- In the Hills of Shiloh - 3:35 (Silverstein-Friedman) [from HCA030]
- City of New Orleans - 4:07 (Goodman, Steve) [from HCA120]
- Fallow Way, The - 4:02 (Collins, Judy) (1997 recording)
- Grandaddy - 3:23 (Collins, Judy) [from HCA160]
- My Father - 4:55 (Collins, Judy) [from HCA080]
- La Chanson de vieux amants (The Song of Old Lovers) - 4:40 (Brel, Jacques) [from HCA070]
- In My Life - 2:53 (Lennon-McCartney) [from HCA060]
- Marat/Sade - 5:33 (Weiss-Mitchell-Peaslee) [from HCA060]
- Send in the Clowns - 3:57 (Sondheim, Stephen) [from HCA120]
DISC 2
- Both Sides Now - 3:14 (Mitchell, Joni) [from HCA070]
- Desperado - 3:32 (Henley, Don/Glenn Frey) [from HCA140]
- Masters of War - 3:21 (Dylan, Bob) [from HCA030]
- Fishermen Song - 3:56 (Collins, Judy) [from HCA110]
- So Early, Early in the Spring - 3:04 (Trad.) [from HCA050]
- First Boy I Loved - 6:29 (Williamson, Robin) [from HCA080]
- Albatross - 4:51 (Collins, Judy) [from HCA070]
- Hard Lovin' Loser - 2:37 (Fariña, Richard) [from HCA060]
- In the Heat of the Summer - 3:21 (Ochs, Phil) [from HCA050]
- Pirate Jenny - 4:02 (Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein) [from HCA060]
- Turn! Turn! Turn! / To Everything There Is a Season - 3:35 (Ecclesiastes-Seeger) [from HCA030]
- Salt of the Earth - 3:59 (Jagger, Mick & Keith Richard) [from HCA120]
- Farewell to Tarwathie - 5:13 (Collins, Judy (arr. & adpt.)) [from HCA090]
- Spanish Is The Loving Tongue - 4:32 (Clark Jr, Charles Bafger) [from HCA130]
- Nothing Lasts Forever - 4:31 (Collins, Judy & Jesse Valenzuela) (1997 recording)
- Walls (We Are Not Forgotten) - 3:50 (Collins, Judy and Louis Nelson) (1997 recording)
- Bird on A Wire - 4:37 (Cohen, Leonard) [from HCA080]
- Amazing Grace - 4:04 (Collins, Judy (arr. & adpt.)) [from HCA090]

The only Elektra albums not represented in this collection are HCA020, HCA040 (live), HCA100 (live), HCA150, and HCA170.

The following songs are duplicated on HCC010 Recollections

Turn! Turn! Turn! / To Everything There Is a Season - 3:35 (Seeger, Pete) [from HCA030]

The following songs are on HCC020 Colors Of The Day and NOT on HCA300 Forever

Sons Of - 2:23 (Brel, Jacques-Gerard Jouannest-Eric Blau-Mort Shuman) [from HCA090]
Sunny Goodge Street - 2:56 (Donovan) [from HCA060]

The other big collection, HCC030 So Early In The Spring, The First Fifteen Years has a few cuts that are not on HCA300 Forever or HCC010 Recollections. This is taken from the cassette as the cassette is still in print as of 10/97. There seems to be no overlap between Recollectionsand So Early In The Spring.

Pretty Saro - 3:05 (Ritchie, Jean) [from HCA010]
Golden Apples of the Sun - 3:55 (Yeats, W.B. & Judy Collins) [from HCA020]
Bonnie Ship the Diamond - 2:17 (Trad.) [from HCA020]
Hostage, The - 2:49 (Paxton, Tom) [from HCA110]
La Colombe - 5:05 (Brel, Jacque) [from HCA060]
Coal Tattoo - 3:04 (Wheeler, Billy Ed) [from HCA040]
Carry It On - 2:49 (Turner, Gil) [from HCA050]
Special Delivery - 3:05 (Mernit, Billy) [Remixed, originally from HCA130]
Lovin' of the Game, The - 3:14 (Garvey, Pat-Victoria Garvey Armstrong) [from HCA120]
Marieke - 4:01 (Brel, Jacques/Gerard Jouannest) [from HCA090]
Weaver Song (Holly Ann) - 4:47 (Collins, Judy) [from HCA110]
Houses - 4:37 (Collins, Judy) [from HCA120]
Secret Gardens - 5:35 (Collins, Judy) [from HCA110]

So, for a good, basic Judy Collins collection, buying HCC010 Recollections and HCA300 Forevercan cover a lot of ground without overlap. Adding HCC030 So Early In The Spring, The First Fifteen Years to that would provide a fantastic retrospective ot the Elektra years (1961-1984)

In 2001, Elektra released HCC400 The Very Best of Judy Collins Elektra 74374. This collection has the original single version of "Chelsea Morning" whereas Forever has a great, 1990s recording. In addition, it also has the following songs not on the other major compilations:

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - 5:03 (Dylan, Bob) (from HCA060)
Song for Judith (Open The Door) - 4:05 (Collins, Judy) (from HCA100)
Cook With Honey - 3:29 (Carter, Valerie) (from HCA110)

HCA310 Both Sides Now - 1998 March 23 - QVC

Judy singing with lush orchestral backup - a very special collection!

Classic Folk (Disc One)(Available separately as Intersound/PlatinumCD.com 3718)
- The Times They Are A Changin' - (Dylan, Bob)
- Barbara Allen - (Trad., Arr. Judy Collins)
- Both Sides Now - (Mitchell, Joni)
- Black Is The Color of My True Love's Hair - (Trad., Arr. Judy Collins)
- Plaisir D'Amour - (Trad.)
- Morning Has Broken - (Stevens, Cat/Eleanor Farjeon)
- Cat's In The Cradle - (Chapin, Harry/Sandra Chapin)
- Leavin' On A Jet Plane/Take Me Home Country Roads - (Denver, John/Denver, John; Taffy Nivert; Bill Danoff)
- Loch Lomond - (Trad., Arr. Judy Collins)
- Let It Be - (Lennon, John/McCartney, Paul)
- Blowin' In The Wind - (Dylan, Bob)
- Amazing Grace - (Trad., Arr. Judy Collins)
Classic Broadway (Disc Two) (Available separately as Intersound/PlatinumCD.com 3752)
- Don't Cry For Me Argentina - (from Evita - Webber, Andrew Lloyd)
- How Are Things in Glocca Morra? - (from Finian's Rainbow - Gershwin, George, Ira Gershwin, E.Y. Harburg, Burton Lane)
- My Heart Stood Still - (from A Connecticut Yankee - Rodgers, Richard, Lorenz Hart)
- I've Grown Accustomed To His Face - (from My Fair Lady - Lerner, Alan Jay, Frederick Loewe)
- Embraceable You - (from Girl Crazy - Gershwin, George and Ira)
- Bewitched - (from Pal Joey - Rodgers, Richard, Lorenz Hart)
- Till There Was You - (from The Music Man - Wilson, Meredith)
- Younger Than Springtime - (from South Pacific - Hammerstein II, Oscar and Richard Rodgers)
- I Can't Get Started - (from Siegfield Follies of 1936 - Duke, Vernon and Gershwin, Ira)
- They Say It's Wonderful - (from Annie Get Your Gun - Berlin, Irving)
- My Funny Valentine - (from Babes in Arms - Rodgers, Richard, Lorenz Hart)
- Send In The Clowns - (from A Little Night Music - Sondheim, Stephen)

HCA320 Singing Lessons - 1998 - Pocket Books

CD distributed with the book, Singing Lessons

Singing Lessons
Born to the Breed
The Fallow Way
The Wedding Song (for Louis)

HCA330 Live at Wolftrap - 1999 June 11 (recorded) - Wildflower - WFL-1298

Judy Collins and Russel Walden

"Beyond the Sky" was written by Judy Collins in honor of Commander Eileen Collins, the first woman Commander of a Space Shuttle. The song is the first to be commissioned through the NASA Art Program.

City of New Orleans - 5:03
Mountain Girl - 6:08
Both Sides Now - 3:49
Song for Bernadette (Cohen-Warnes) - 5:44
Great Selchie of Shule Skerry - 5:22
Wings of Angels - 5:03
Danny Boy - 3:36
Someday Soon - 3:26
In the Heat of the Summer - 3:53
The Fallow Way - 4:29
The Blizzard - 7:48
Walls - 4:09
Amazing Grace - 2:54
My Father - 5:45
Beyond the Sky - 4:52

HCA340 Live at Wolftrap - 2000 June 18 (recorded) - Wildflower - WFL-1296

Judy Collins, Russel Walden, Mark Egan, Morris Goldberg, Tony Beard, Eric Weissberg

Someday Soon - 4:03
Mountain Girl - 5:31
Both Sides Now - 3:22
City of New Orleans - 5:51
Gypsy Rover - 3:50
She Moves Through the Fair - 5:49
My Funny Valentine - 1:56
Kerry Dancers - 1:56
Danny Boy - 3:38
My Father - 4:56
Bird on the Wire - 5:54
Send in the Clowns - 4:14
Amazing Grace - 3:44
Beyond the Sky - 4:57
Who Knows Where the Time Goes - 7:51

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